Improvement in flour-bolts



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A. J. pinete, or FRANKLIN, NEW YORK.'

Letters Patent No. 99,861, dated February 15, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLOUR-BOLTS.

The Schedule referred to n these Letters Patent and making part of the same To Il 'whom it 'may concern Be it known that I, A. J DIBBLE, of Franklin, in the county of Delaware andiState of New York, have invented a new and improved Flour-Bolt; and I do hereby declare that the following "is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others -skilled in the art to .make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part oi' this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in flour-bolts f'or custom use, which arel required to he used for differentkinds of `grain, and consists in the substitution of coarse wire-cloth at the tail end for the silk commonly used thereat for separating the tailings from the bra n, and in addition thereto over the said wire-cloth and on an enlarged portion 'of the reel, of coarse silk cloth, such as commonly used in the place where I place the wire, so as to provide a space between it and the wire, and designed for the reception of the coarse bran or feed which will thus be separated from the hulls of hnckwheat when grinding this grain, and be delivered into a receptacle over which the Lulls are chuted and discharged to another receptacle, the object of which is to provide a bolt by which I may obtain this feed separate from the hulls, which are injurious to animals, and which willfat the same time, be suitable for bolting the meal ot' other grain.

Figure l is a longitudinal section of a boltconstructed according to my improvement, and

Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same.v

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parta,

VThe reel A is constructed in the ordinary way, with the rim B and short ribs C added, and coarse wirecloth D is placed onthe tail end where the middlingscloth E is commonly placed, and the latter is placed on the ribs C and. rim B, but does not extend quite so far along the tail as the wire does. By this arrangement, in the case of all grains except huclnvheat, the tailings passing out at the ends ot' both thel wire-cloth and the cloth E, into one common receptacle, will be the same as when passed through a bolt of ordinary construction, and the middlingsglmssing through the cloth E will he. the same; and in the case ot'buckwheat meal, by conveying the deliveries from each to separate receptacles, l am enabled to utilize the. coarse feed passing ont at the end of the clot-h E, which is now commonly delivered with the hulls, which arc injurious to animals.

'I am aware that the same separat-ion has been effected by lengthening the reel and placing the cloth E between the wire-cloth placed at the end and the other Houring-eloth, G, but by my arrangement4 the lengthening'of the reel is avoided.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patenty lhe arrangement of the coarse hulling wire-cloth D, on the reel next the ouring-cloth G, and the middlings-cloth E, over the wire-cloth on an enlargement oi' the reel, and so as to deliver into a se parate receptacle, all substantially as specified. L A. J. .DIBBLE.

Witnesses: l

C. D. THOMPSON, "E, R. BUCHER.. 

